Timothy James Harrison, Reverend

1789 - 1865  (75 years)

• Name	Timothy James Harrison  [1, 2, 3]
  Title	Reverend
  Birth	20 Jul 1789	New Haven County, Connecticut, United States   [2]
  Gender	Male
  FSID	KFBQ-HMY
  Burial	1865	Washington, District of Columbia, United States   [2]
  Death	10 Mar 1865	Washington, District of Columbia, United States   [2]
  Person ID	I316	footsteps | Harrison, Bruce, Mayflower-WB, Mayflower-JT, Lady Godiva, Charlamagne, Conqueor, Robert Capet II, William Wallace
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2025

  
  

  Father	Timothy Harrison,   b. 8 Jul 1752, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States d. 3 Apr 1825, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States (Age 72 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Clarinda Fosdick,   b. 9 Mar 1748, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States d. 26 Aug 1823, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States (Age 75 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	14 Mar 1776	Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
  Family ID	F402	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne Robinson Maddox,   b. 29 Aug 1796, Virginia, United States d. 30 Oct 1880, Prince William, Virginia, United States (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	4 Jun 1813	Washington, District of Columbia, United States
  Children	+ 1. Edward Charles Harrison,   b. 18 Feb 1825, Centerville, Accomack, Virginia, United States d. 6 Jan 1862, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand (Age 36 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F56	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 20 Jul 1789 - New Haven County, Connecticut, United States Marriage - 4 Jun 1813 - Washington, District of Columbia, United States Burial - 1865 - Washington, District of Columbia, United States Death - 10 Mar 1865 - Washington, District of Columbia, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Timothy graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, in 1811. In June of 1813, he married Ann Robinson Maddox in Alexandria, District of Columbia. In 1829, his nomination to serve as a Naval Chaplain (Presbyterian) was approved by Congress. He served as a U.S. Naval Chaplain until 1862, when he retired from active duty. During the Civil War, Timothy Harrison lived in the District of Columbia with his daughter and son-in-law, Augusta and McPherson Barnitz. The Rev. Timothy J. Harrison died on 10 March 1865. His wife, Ann Harrison, remained on their 359-acre dairy farm in Gainesville, Virginia. The farm and family home, were severely affected by the two battles at Manassas -- the farm being immediately adjacent to the battlefield. By the law of 21 December 1861, any officer of the Navy was eligible for retirement "whose name had been borne on the Naval Register forty-five years" or who had attained the age of sixty-two.* This provision made it possible for a number of the older officers to turn over the responsibilities of their office to younger men during the critical days of the war. In the 1862 Navy Register, the following seven chaplains were listed as having been retired under this law: Charles Stewart, T. J. Harrison, George Jones, Moses Chase, J. W. Newton, John Watson, and Henry Wood. Actually, at least half of the chaplains listed as retired continued on duty during the war.

  
  

• Sources

  [S61] U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, Place: Plymouth, Massachusetts; Year: 1623; Page Number: 243. [S762] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). Record for Thomas James Harrison [S439] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Source number: 452.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: MP1.